How do we help? These are some of the needs we try to address:

1. Provide financial assistance to children suddenly entering foster care so they can replace some of their belongings as they transition into their new environment.
2. Enable at-risk teens to develop outside interests; such as music lessons and sports, by paying for classes, instruments or equipment.
3. Fund after-school programs for middle-school children who are home alone and have shown themselves to be vulnerable to bad influences in the neighborhoods.
4. Help kids go to summer programs for as much of the summer as possible. Many kids do absolutely nothing for 10 weeks of the year without any adult supervision!
5. Allow children who were exposed to a new activity while in a foster home, to continue with it after being returned home if it would otherwise be unaffordable; such as ballet lessons.
6. Motivate court involved teens to follow orders that have been imposed by the court- such as 'stay in school', or 'have clean drug screens', with small incentives such as gift cards.
7. Help children who have been placed in foster homes in other parts of the states, to see their parents, by providing money for public transportation to these often far away towns.
8. Help low-income family members who take in a relative’s child when the parent is unable to care for their child themselves, with needed items and services.
9. Allow young foster children who are placed in foster homes that do not share the same language or culture as the child’s own family, to continue to have exposure to their particular familial background through special programs/activities, so they can comfortably readjust when they return home at a later date.
10. Provide funds for a babysitter so a single parent of young children can go to the daily AA meetings that are so critical if they are to stay sober.
11. Help children in foster care with the various types of things that children need, such as: school supplies, prom dresses, etc.
12. Support homeless families who finally find housing and still can’t move in – because they cannot come up with the initial security deposit.
13. Encourage pregnant teenagers to seek counseling and help provide baby supplies and parenting help, when necessary.
14. Assist parents with financial help when no other funds are available and the services are considered necessary in order to effectively parent their child, such as: attend ESL courses, get their car fixed, seek counseling, etc.